End-gate for wagons



(No Model.)

I. EATON.

END GATE FOR WAGONS.

Patented Nov., 4, 1884.

WITNESSES .f7 o5, W 0% 5f Miren diaree Partnr @errent ISAAC EATON, OF NEW SHARON, IOVA.

ENDmGATE FOR VVAGONS.

SPECIE'IGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 307,529, dated November 4, 1884.

Application tiled April 23, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, Isaac Eltron, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Sharon, in the county of Mahaska and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improve` ments in End-Gates `for VagOns, and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reti erence being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specication, and tothe letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of the end of a wagon box or body with my improved endgate connected thereto.

Fig. 2 is an end view thereof; Fig. 8, a detail view in perspective of the gate, and Fig. 4c a detail longitudinal section.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in endgates for wagon-bodies; and the object thereof is to so construct the gate as to avoid the necessity of constructing it in sections joined together. To accomplish this end it has been common to construct the `gate in a single seetion and provide 'it at one end with a levercatch jointed to a short connecting-link, which in turn is hinged to a metal shaft upon the outer side of the gate, the ends of the catch having hooked prongs to engage with notches on the side of the wagon-body. The levercatch being connected to the side of the endgate, it was necessary to provide a connectinglink to form two joints, one at the point of connection with the lever-catch and the other at the point of connection ot' said link with the shaft of metal secured to the gate. As the connection of the lever-catch was wholly upon the outer side ot' the end-gate, it was necessary to have this double joint, otherwise the levercatch could not be operated in removing and replacing the gate. It is the purpose of the present invention to provide means whereby the necessity of a double joint, and consequently a multiplication of parts in the construction of the gate, is entirely avoided.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a portion of a wagon body or box, provided upon its inner side with cleats B C, the latter being of metal, and having a hooked tiange, a, although, if preferred, any suitable cleats may be used.

The end-gate D is made in one piece, and has near one of its edges or ends a'tlanged plate, E, which engages with the flanged cleat G upon the box or body A. Upon the oppo- 5 5 site end of the gate-D is a plate, F, provided with a slotted extension, b, iitting over a staple, c, on the gate, and fastened thereto by a latch, d, pivoted to the plate. Any other suitable fastening device may be employed for 6o securing the plate to the gate, "as found most convenient, t-he plate as well as the fastening device shown being substantially like that shown in my former patent granted June 26, 1883, No. 280,020. Instead, however, of con- 65 strueting the gate in two sections, hinged together, I hinge the plate directly to the edge of the gate by means of loops e thereon, which pass through elongated eyes f ou the inner side of the plate, as more clearly shown in 7o Fig. 4, thus admitting of said plate being brought at right angles to the gate.

By the above construction, and dispensing with a sectional gate, greater strength and du rability are obtained, while any pressure of the 7 5 contents of the wagon against the gate will not inj ure it, as there are no hinges to strain and weaken, as would be the ease where thegate is composed ot' two separate sections hinged together, while the construction ad- 8o mits of its being manufactured at a comparatively small cost.

rlhe plate F has a iiange, g, at its outer edge, which engages with the hooked iiange a of the cleat G, and, if desired, said cleat may be pro- 85 vided with a spring-bolt to engage with one of a series of perforations in the plate, asin my former patent. l The essential feature ol' my invention is the manner of hinging the plate F to the end-gate 9o l). Thus, instead ol' hinging it directly to the outer side of the gate, which would necessitate an intermediate link to provide a double joint, as heretofore, I ferm the plate in one piece ofthe same width as the gate, and hinge 95 it directly to the edge thereof, to enable it to be turned at right angles thereto in removing or replacing the gate.

Having now :fully described niy invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Ioo Letters Patent, is-

rlhe combination, with an end -ga-te of a Wagon provided `at one of its ends with a In testimony that I claim the above I have flanged plate, of a flanged plat-e of a Width hereunto subscribed my name iu the presence 1c equal to that of the gate, and hinged directly of two witnesses.

to the edge thereof, to enable it to be turned ISAAC EATON. at right angles thereto, and a fastening device Ttnessesz for holding the plate extended parallel With I. N. PENLAND,

the gate, substantially as and for the purpose J AMES AMEST.

set forth. 

